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jonathathan··on Facebook's attempt to vilify Apple looks like sour grapes
There's no pressure from the board or shareholders on the CEO, he holds the majority voting rights
jonathathan··on Timnit Gebru: Google and big tech are 'institutionally racist'
Maybe not my place, but I'm just going to link to the HN comment guidelines [1] and quote a few relevant sections:

- "Don't be snarky."

- "Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community."

- "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

jonathathan··on San Francisco Apartment Rents Crater Up to 31%, Most in U.S.
Lots of people are moving to Montreal as they're priced out of Toronto
jonathathan··on OpenAI is giving Microsoft exclusive access to its GPT-3 language model
The charter only constrains their use of AGI, which they define at the top in a way that excludes all of their current and near-future work.
jonathathan··on Netflix CEO explains why he pays technologists huge salaries
The comparison to Disney and Amazon is because their products are in competition, not because they pay similar wages
jonathathan··on The Math of Card Shuffling (2018)
This is a really nice visualization. One recommendation I'd have for the author is to use a four-colour deck (usually blue and green for diamonds and clubs). This would make it much easier to see where each card lands after inserting it randomly into the deck.
jonathathan··on Facebook to shift permanently toward more remote work after coronavirus
> extremely or very interested in working remotely full time

It sounds like you are not at all interested in working remotely full time

jonathathan··on What are the best powers to play in Diplomacy?
webdiplomacy.net has an old-timey interface but it's a great site to play on
jonathathan··on Thousands flock to Wikipedia founder's 'Facebook rival'
It's not true though..? 160k is not more than half a million
jonathathan··on Open-sourcing CraftAssist for studying collaborative bots in Minecraft
Hi, I'm one of the authors. CraftAssist communicates with the Minecraft server via an implementation of the Minecraft protocol available at [1]. This is compiled into a pybind module which is imported by (python) agent code. You should be able to write a network client for Minetest that provides the same python interface (e.g. functions to move, place blocks, and fetch cuboids of blocks from the environment) and import this instead, while still making use of the pure python modules built on top (e.g. the semantic parser, the Tasks, and the memory system).

[1] https://github.com/facebookresearch/craftassist/tree/master/...